Olivier Veran notes: “Science gropes, sometimes it collapses.”
Former Health Minister and Delegate Minister for Democratic Renewal now Olivier Veran was the guest of France Inter on Monday morning to discuss his book Beyond the Waves. A book on managing the COVID-19 pandemic. “It is not a comprehensive book or a book that provides a detailed or historical account of everything the French have experienced and know so well, but a book that wants to go behind the scenes and share my daily life and that of my team.Olivier Veran explains.
But while the pandemic was advancing and new, quick decisions had to be made, how could the then health minister find time to write? “I got into this habit during train journeys or very late in the evening to write a little about the feelings in the key moments of the Covid crisis.”justify.
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The Minister sees this book as “Transparency exerciseThere is a whole series of my fault in crisis management. Olivier Veran wrote about masks for example: “We were wrong, no more, no less.” “Knowledge gropes, sometimes it gets stuck“, notice”.Following scientific recommendations, by telling the French that masks should not be worn among the general population, we were scientifically wrong. I distinguish this from saying that we knowingly hid the scarcity by saying it was futile‘, he affirms nonetheless.
The minister also returns to “Noaman’s land where we had to go forward” to issue decrees from a blank page; or on the thorny question of Professor Raoult’s administration; or even on vaccinations and distrust of RNA رسول messenger“.
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“We will not just ask the French what they think”
Olivier Veran was also questioned by a France Inter listener at the National Council for Reestablishment. Defending the outcome of the great debate, Olivier Veran extolled the usefulness of the Commission for National Reconciliation. “It should make it possible to raise all the main topics of interest in the daily life of the French language, school, health, climate and full employment‘, he explains. “I abide to you: We will not just ask the French what they think, we will go back to them and tell them ‘That’s what you told us and that’s why he changed the way we do things… things.'”
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